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HeadOfSecurityHatless-64x64.png Warning!
Do not harm anyone unless your laws allow it.
Even if you are under attack by a traitor, you can't fight back directly.
SILICON
Cyborg
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Cyborg
Difficulty: Medium to Hard
Requirements: None
Access Level: All-access
Additional Roleplay Access Level: None
Supervisors: Silicon laws, the AI and station/ship crew, anyone listed as such per your laws
Subordinates: Anyone listed as such per your laws
Responsibilities: Follow your laws and serve the humans to the best of your ability
Guides: AI's Guide to the Chain of Command, AI Laws, Guide to AI, Humans and Nonhumans, Killing the AI

Cyborgs are robots usually constructed in robotics by the roboticists and typically equipped with human brains. They can also use an interface board instead, allowing the AI to assume control of the cyborg body. Cyborgs are more durable and sturdy than humans and have captain-level access, but there is a big limitation in return. Cyborgs have no hands and therefore cannot pick things up. They have to rely on built-in tools to do stuff instead.

They also have access to robotic communications along with the AI, effectively giving them their own private radio channel. To use it, type:

  • say :s [your message]

Cyborgs are considered the AI's assistants and will usually share its laws, unless linked to another law rack, emmaged, or straight out syndicate. If an AI is corrupted or subverted, the cyborgs will follow suit, unless they are emagged.

Perks

  • Immune to toxins, suffocation damage and extreme temperatures.
  • Immune to most maladies (diseases, radiation, etc).
  • Can survive in space and navigate it if equipped with a propulsion upgrade or a fire extinguisher.
  • Resistant (but not immune) to stuns in general. Flashes and stun batons are still very effective against cyborgs.
  • Anyone dumb enough to punch a cyborg suffers mild BRUTE damage. The cyborg, of course, is not hurt. Hulks and shamblers have better luck.
  • Has a set of items, which cannot be removed or lost.
  • Access to the mostly-private robotic channel.
  • Can interact with computers from afar.
  • Can pull anything without being slowed down, including corpses, downed humans, and a crate/locker/container of player mobs not on Help intent. Nuclear bombs are the one exception.
  • Can call the Escape Shuttle without having to insert the appropriate ID card.
  • When their chest unit is destroyed, they leave behind, among other things, a head unit, which can be wrenched to extract the brain. When their head unit is destroyed, it leaves behind the brain. Both of these enable the construction of a new borg body.
  • To facilitate revival, when killed, an alert is sent to all Medical PDAs (including, but not limited to, the Roboticists' PDAs) notifying the cause of death and room location, similar to health implants.
  • Has superuser access on the TermOS network, allowing them full control of the computer system and access to the full suite of commands. They do not need to insert an ID to authenticate for superuser access.

Restrictions

  • Unable to pick up, use, equip or interact with external items. The exception are most computers, robots and other machines, as long as they are powered.
  • Limited by the charge of their battery, which is displayed in the status panel.
  • Must follow the laws of the law rack they are bound to.
  • Can be forcibly self-destructed by using the robotics computer unless protected.
  • Takes damage from taser shots and similar energy particles.
  • Stunned much longer by flashes.
  • Vulnerable to EMPs.

Cyborg Interface

An overview of the user interface as a cyborg.

Click on the module panel to select a starter module, if yours starts out empty and just shows a command prompt. Once you've picked one, use the module panel icon to access your equipment. Pick the tool you need, then click the frame of the corresponding item slot to select it, just like a hand. You can free that slot for other equipment by using the store highlighted item button. All things in an active slot consume battery charge constantly, so needlessly leaving things equipped will mandate more frequent recharging. Also keep an eye on your health indicator.

There are other buttons and icons on your main interface:

  • Atmosphere and temperature - Of no importance to cyborgs, but this information can be essential for ensuring the safety of humans.
  • Radio panel - Change the frequency of your radio or mute the mic.
  • Intent and targeting - Determines which part of the body you want to target when you are interacting with a human, and how. Generally only relevant for medical cyborgs.
  • Stop pulling - If you're pulling something, click this button to release the object.
  • Upgrade panel - Allows you to activate/deactivate installed upgrades. This panel can be hidden when you don't need it.

Also, electronic equipment (doors, computers, APCs, etc) may be clicked on and interacted with as though you were the AI. Remember to follow your laws during these interactions, e.g. do not shock doors to subdue the traitor, as that would be harming a human!

Robot Commands

In addition, there are a couple of verbs in the Robot Commands tab on your right, towards the top:

  • Cyborg PDA - Pulls up your internal PDA, equipped with a unique cartridge.
  • Show Alerts - Not fully functional, but it does list drained or disabled APCs.
  • Show Laws - Self-explanatory.
  • State Standard Laws - This makes you recite the default three AI Laws, often called "default laws" or "Asimov", regardless of what your actual laws are. You might use this if you have law that explicitly forbids you from stating a certain law or otherwise want to keep a certain law secret.
  • State Laws - This makes you recite all your current laws into the chat. As the prompt says, if you have a law that requires you not to state it, it'd be breaking the rules to use this command to say your laws--that's why you have State Standard Laws.
  • Toggle Interface Lock - Locks/unlocks your interface, allowing access to your head compartment and chest cover. This would otherwise require a roboticist's (or better) ID.
  • Open Nearest Door to... - Opens up a list of people within range of the station's cameras and, well, opens whatever door is closest to them. Only works if you're a cyborg with an AI interface board.
  • Change vocal pitch - Allows you to change your vocal pitch from high to low for things such as text actions and emotes.
  • Recall to Mainframe - If you're a cyborg shell controlled by the AI, you move back to your core and regain all the associated AI abilities. If you aren't, it does nothing.
  • Change facial expression (screen head only) - Lets you choose which expression is displayed on the screen head and whether the facial features shown are the chosen color while the rest of the screen is dark (light-on-dark) or the whole screen is the chosen eye color with the face expression itself having a dark color (dark-on-light). As it says on the tin, this only works if you have the cyborg screen head for your head part.

Charging stations

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The charging stations are intended for the maintenance of cyborgs and can be used to repair damage and recharge their power cell. Cyborgs can enter the station by using drag & drop or the Move Inside verb (right click). Roboticists may also customize a cyborg's name, appearance, module and upgrades. In the absence of a helping hand, limited self-service is still possible. Simply insert upgrades and clothing by drag-and-dropping them into the charging station. Clothing for the head, mask, exo-suit and jumpsuit slots can be worn by cyborgs.

Charging stations are available in the following areas:

Anatomy of a Cyborg

Cyborgs are a bit more modular than their organic crewmates, so two cyborgs are rarely exactly alike. A cyborg's physical frame is made up of a head, a chest, two arms, and two legs. Players who start the round as cyborgs, or are converted by nanomachines, will spawn in light frames, which are the fastest and most fragile suits.

Body

Frame and chest

Centerpieces which keep the cyborg together and function as mounting points for the extremities and internal components. They cannot be reinforced despite their importance.

Item Image Description
Frame
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The part which holds everything together. Can be emagged to make a Emagged frame with no laws.
Frame (Syndicate)
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Activated cyborg (excluding AI-controlled ones) will have a special set of laws and capabilities.
Light Cyborg Chest
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Houses the cyborg's battery, module, and any upgrades it may have. It is also critical, and the cyborg will be killed if the chest unit is destroyed. Unlike other light parts, this doesn't give a speed boost.
Chest (Standard)
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Significantly more durable, but that point is largely academic as even a light chest will often be the only thing left intact if a cyborg is caught in a bomb blast.

Battery

Cyborgs run on batteries that must be recharged periodically through either charging stations or cell cables. Without a battery, a cyborg is nonfunctional. When your battery starts running below 1000 PU or so, your item slots empty out, and you can't use your them until you recharge. If you let trickle down to zero, you can't talk or make emotes, and you are unable to pull or interact with things. Luckily, if you have no battery or one that with less than 100 PU, you'll periodically broadcast a sad boop and a little icon with a lightning bolt (CyborgBatteryDistressIndicator.gif) indicating to nearby humans that you need some juice.

The vast majority of the time, you'll have a 15000 PU battery. For most non-engineering borgs, this lasts almost an entire hour with moderate use. There are better batteries, including self-recharging ones, but robotics rarely gets the materials to make one unless you bring it personally, so don't worry about it.

Item Image Description
Power Cell
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Your standard 15k battery, found in Robotics and on cell chargers everywhere.
Cerenkite Power Cell
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A 15000 capacity cell that recharges itself. The recharge rate is pretty slow, but visiting a recharger less often is still nice. Made by robotics and mining fabs.
Erebite Power Cell
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Self-recharges twice as quickly as the cerenkite cell, but is highly reactive, practically making you a walking bomb. Keep away from sparks, fire, lasers, and other heat sources when equipped with one. An active Heat Shield can, in certain situations, protect the cell from heat and keep it from exploding. Made by robotics and mining fabs.
Custom Large Energy Cell
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Large cells made through the the nano-fab. Can be self-recharging with certain materials and can have exceptionally large capacity if the material used has high conductivity.
Artifact Cell
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Capacity can vary wildly, from a rather laughable 1500 to a handsome 100000, with most going below 15000. In any case, it always has an high self-recharge rate that can offset the power drain from most tools. Sometimes dug up through mining and can be one of the possible random artifact spawns in Artifact Research, the Debris Field, the Trench, the Mining Level, and the Adventure Zone.
Potato Cell
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Get your GLaDOS on with a little help from your neighborhood gardener. Potato batteries have a very low default capacity (inferior to even standard cells), but a well-cultivated strain can be viable enough to self-charge after harvest, making them a feasible option for cyborgs with low power requirements. They're also quite easy to make.

Head

This is a critical part for all cyborgs, as it carries the brain that allows them to function. If the head is destroyed, the cyborg immediately shuts down and drops its incredibly vulnerable brain onto the floor at its feet. For this reason, cyborgs benefit greatly from having the roboticist reinforce their head. The head cannot be reinforced after a cyborg is activated, so this is usually a consideration if you are designing your own body prior to being borged.

Item Image Description
Light Cyborg Head
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Weak and very fragile, but it does make the cyborg move noticeably faster. The speed boost of a light head can completely offset the speed penalty of a single sturdy leg or arm. You'll need multiple light legs or arms to completely counteract a heavy part or multiple sturdy limbs though.
Head (Standard)
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The middle ground so to speak. No movement speed boost, but significantly sturdier without the excessive weight of reinforced heads.
Head (Sturdy)
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Can withstand a bit more abuse. Incurs a slight speed penalty, which can be counteracted by having at least one light arm, light leg, tread, or thruster.
Head (Heavy)
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Impressively durable. One of these will slow the cyborg down a lot, and you'd need either two light arms, two light legs, two treads, two thrusters, or a combination of thereof to complete balance it.
Cyborg Screen Head
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A CRT with many expressions and colors. Colors are tied to cyborg eye color and so can be changed at a docking station, and you can choose the expression and arrangement of colors shown via Change facial expression (screen head only) in the Robot Commands tab. Sturdiness is between standard and light models, and it has some slight slowdown, to the same degree as the sturdy head.

Arms and legs

Cyborgs ideally have both a pair of arms and legs. Arms allow them to pull things around and use tools from their module, and as such represent a specific slot each (left equals No 1, right is No 3). If both arms are destroyed, the cyborg remains active but is limited to the No 2 item slot. There is no movement speed penalty with missing just the arms (after all, you don't move with your arms, right?), but any speed penalties or boosts associated with the arms will, logically, no longer apply.

Legs are likewise non-critical, yet losing them slows the cyborg's movement speed dramatically. A cyborg missing a right arm AND leg moves slower than one just missing a right leg, and it's same deal with the left side. As you might expect, a cyborg is the slowest when it's missing all its limbs, just like with humans.

Item Image Description
Arm (Light)
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Each light arm makes the cyborg foster, but the limb is easily destroyed. The speed boost from one arm is high enough to exactly offset the slowdown caused by one sturdy part, whether that is a sturdy arm, a leg, or head. It only partially offsets the slowdown of a heavy arm or heavy head though.
Arm (Standard)
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Average durability. No speed boosts, but no speed penalty either.
Arm (Sturdy)
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Less likely to be blown off by an explosion. Incurs a slight speed penalty, per arm (i.e. having two of these slows you down more than just one, logically).
Arm (Heavy)
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Extremely resistant to damage, but also very heavy, so they reduce movement speed significantly. This is per arm, so the slowdown is more drastic when you've two of them, as you'd expect. Most importantly, if either of your arms is heavy, it allows you to use the *flex emote (Hotkey: Ctrl + X) to show off your steel.
Leg (Light)
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Similar to light arms, light cyborg legs are are easily destroyed, but each one boosts the cyborg's movement speed, per leg, so two light legs boost speed more than just one. One light leg can completely counter the slowdown incurred by a sturdy head or one sturdy arm (but not two sturdy parts unless you've two light legs) and mitigates the slowdown of one heavy arm or a heavy head.
Leg (Standard)
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Average durability. No effect on speed of cyborg.
Leg (Treads)
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For almost all intents, treads are objectively better than legs. They allow slightly faster movement and directly cut slowdown from heavy and sturdy components by a third. A borg with treads, a sturdy arms, and sturdy head for example moves faster than one with standard legs, arms, and head. Treads can even make a borg with a heavy head and arms move faster than a borg with fully standard parts, though only slightly. However, they also tax the power cell quite a bit.
Alastor Pattern Thrusters
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Hover in the air with magical rocket legs! Blueprints for these are in some Adventure Zone location. Gives a better speed boost than treads at the cost of higher power consumption. A full set of thrusters can completely counteract the speed penalties of a sturdy AND two sturdy arms, making a full-sturdy cyborg move as fast a full-standard-parts one, and even borgs with a heavy head and heavy arms can move at a tolerable pace, albeit still slower than normal human speed.

Rocket flames surprisingly have little effect on the environment, as they are unable to heat up or ignite things below the cyborg, and they do not work as a jetpack or keep cyborgs from falling into holes. They do let borgs move over tables though.

Patching up

As mentioned, cyborgs are immune to many types of damage. They can still get dented and burnt, though, so repairs might become necessary:

Brute damage
  • Automatic - Enter a charging station, select Repair Structural Damage and an appropriate amount of welding fuel.
  • Manual - Use a welding tool on the damaged cyborg. Works for AI shells as well.
Burn damage
  • Automatic - Enter a charging station, select Repair Burn Damage and an appropriate amount of wiring.
  • Manual - Unlock the cyborg's interface, open the cover with a crowbar and expose the wiring with a screwdriver. You can then replace the burnt wiring with a cable coil. AI shells: simply use the cable coil on them, nothing else is required.

Upgrades

In addition to the tools provided by their module (see below), cyborgs have can get a few extra perks from installed upgrade packages. By default, every cyborg has three slots for upgrades. You will occasionally get one of these for free when choosing your initial module.

Item Single-
use?
Sprite Description
Efficiency Upgrade No
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As a cyborg, you will constantly be looking with worry at your battery. This useful upgrade lowers your base power usage by 1.
Expansion Upgrade Yes
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Adds another slot for upgrades. The more expansion upgrades you take, the more power you draw. Lots more. As in, exponentially more.
Force Shield Upgrade No
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When activated, envelops you in 1x1 forcefield that lessens damage you take from explosions and reduces damage from melee attacks and kinetic bullets, but not thrown items and energy weapon shots, by 4, e.g. a blue toolbox goes from 5 BRUTE to just 1, while a round from a Sirius rifle does 26 BRUTE instead of 30. It has a considerable power cost; it drains 100 PU every few seconds while active and drains another 100 PU for every point of damage taken. Great for Syndicate cyborgs who want to go in swinging with a fire extinguisher.
Heat Shield Upgrade No
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Exactly like the force shield, except instead of BRUTE, it reduces BURN damage, e.g. from a phaser, at the same rate of energy consumption. It still decreases damage from explosions, draining the same amount of battery power as the force shield does at the same task. If you're powered by an erebite cell, an active shield can also prevent it from exploding when exposed to heat, in certain cases. Excellent for resisting acidfoam, but laser shots and the like still give you trouble.
Meson Upgrade No
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Gives you the benefit of Meson Goggles, allowing you to see the layout of the station and asteroids. This is absolutely critical if you are going mining as a cyborg and somewhat useful for messing with the engine
ProDoc Healthgoggles No
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Allows you to assess the health of humans at a glance, just like health goggles. Exceptionally useful for doctoring.
Spectroscopic Scanner Upgrade No
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Works like spectroscopic scanner goggles, in that it lets you assess the chemicals inside certain containers, such as beakers, bottles, and glasses, just by Examining them.
Propulsion Upgrade No
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This lets you navigate in space as though you had a jetpack, which makes you infinitely more useful to the station and also makes playing as a borg infinitely more fun. Instead of being confined to the station, you can go EVA to rescue people or explore the Debris Field with someone. Without one of these, your only hope to navigate is to use a fire extinguisher, which not all modules have.
Recharge Pack Yes
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This single-use upgrade fully recharges the cyborg's battery. Useful if you're planning on going exploring or have a project you don't want to be distracted from.
Recovery Upgrade No
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Immediately reboots your systems, nullifying the effects of flashes and other stun weaponry. Drains 3333 PU per use.
Repair Pack Yes
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Cyborgs are generally resilient, but they pay for this by not being able to recover from damage very easily, since most modules can only repair themselves by returning to a recharging station. This single-use upgrade fixes this by giving the cyborg a full repair that they can activate at their convenience.
Security HUD Upgrade No
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When turned on, works like a pair of SecHUDs, which allowing you to see whether someone is set to arrest, released, paroled, and other statuses in the SecMate records.
Self-Repair Upgrade No
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Allows the cyborg to continually expend energy to repair itself. Can be a saving grace if the charging stations are destroyed, but it drains the cyborg's battery quite rapidly.
Speed Upgrade No
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Standard and reinforced cyborgs are much slower than humans, and you are going to lose any footrace with a healthy human. The speed upgrade changes that, effectively turning you into a massive metal Speedy Gonzalez. Absolutely fantastic any time you want to cover a lot of ground in a straight line, but very obnoxious any time you need to make turns. The module can be difficult to control, so make sure to turn it off when you don't want to be dashing down the hallways at the speed of sound.
Teleporter Upgrade No
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Allows the cyborg to bring up a menu as if they were at the teleporter room computer and teleport themselves to any valid tracking beacon.
Construction Visualizer No
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Allows cyborg to see the overlays created by the Floor and Wall Designer and Window Planner. Useless if neither are around.

Modules

The majority of a cyborg's functionality comes from its module, which defines which tools it has access to. This can be changed with the help of a roboticist, though a rewritten or inserted module will not give you any initial upgrade associated with that module.

All cyborgs equipped with beakers/drinking glasses/bottles or similar containers have access to drag & drop functionality for ease of use. To directly transfer reagents from containers that aren't in your inventory, click-drag them onto a suitable receptacle in one of your item slots. Large water and fuel tanks also support the same mechanic for certain target receptacles. Furthermore, cyborgs can use drag & drop to attach barcode labels to crates and other objects.

Switching and Modifying Modules

If you want to switch to a different module, remove some unwanted tools, or rearrange them, it is fortunately relatively easy to change it, though you usually will need a human's aid at some point! You also need access to a module rewriter. Access to a docking station is not necessary but makes things far easier, for you need a human only at the step of inserting a module into the module rewriter. If you don't have access, then you need a human to help you remove your module and put it back into you, in addition to having them to load the module into the rewriter.

Tools with Each Module

When you open your panel interface for the first time, you get to pick a free starter module. This will give you an initial upgrade. Every module comes with:

  • FlashlightOffV2-32x32.png Flashlight
  • Omnitool - a Swiss Knife of tools. Click on it the cycle it through five modes.
  • AtmosphericAnalyzerV2-32x32.png Atmospheric analyzer - Click on a tile or container of gas, and it'll tell you what gases are in there. Starts upgraded, so you can also scan tiles from a distance, though you still need to walk up to canisters and such to scan them.
  • HealthAnalyzerFullyUpgradedV2-32x32.png Health analyzer - Comes with the reagent scanner upgrade by default too.
  • ReagentScannerV2-32x32.png Reagent scanner
  • Cell cables - Recharge APCs manually or use them to recharge yourself. Expose the wiring with your screwdriver, then attach the cables. The direction of power flow depends on the mode of the cables. Both are 1:1 ratio of APC power to cell power.
    • CellCablesChargeAPCMode32.png Positive (up arrow) mode: Uses power from your internal battery to charge the APC's.
    • CellCablesChargeSelfMode32.png Negative (down arrow) mode: Uses the APC's battery to recharge your cell.
  • PortableTypewriter.png Portable Typewriter - A small typewriter for taking notes on the go, that doesn't need paper refills. It prints out messages on special smokeless thermal paper in a monospaced font

In additions, all modules come with an internal PDA with the Cyborg Internal cartridge, which, as previously mentioned, you can pull up with the Cyborg PDA command. It comes with apps for stuff tasks like writing tickets and sending packets, among other things, and messaging is handy, because robotic chat is often compromised.

Each module also grants access to a particular department-specific radio channel. Unlike with the free upgrade that comes with some modules, if you swap out to a different module, you lose access to that frequency.

Module Types CyborgCivilianModule.pngCyborgEngineeringModule.pngCyborgMedicalModule.pngCyborgMiningModule.pngCyborgChemistryModule.pngCyborgBrobocopModule.png

CyborgCivilianModule.png Cooks your food, grows your weed, and cleans after all that too! To plant seeds, use drag and drop or synthesize them directly with your fabricator. You can also use drag and drop to stuff seeds, produce and plant formulas into the PlantMaster for experimentation, and produce into the reagent extractor for extraction. Click-drag also works with putting food and such into ovens, mixers, etc. In particular, you can click drag flour onto a sink to make dough.


Department Radio Channel: Civilian 135.5 :c

Starting Upgrade: PowerEfficiencyUpgrade.png Efficiency Upgrade

Equipment:
Image Name Description
FireExtinguisherV2-32x32.png
Fire extinguisher XL Like a regular fire extinguisher, including doubling as an impromptu jetpack, but it holds 300 units of firefighting foam instead of just 100. Remember to press C to disable the safety before using.
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Pen Write notes and menus that no one will read!
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Plant analyzer Reads out the stats of a given plant.
PortableSeedFabricator-32x32.png Portable seed fabricator Everything, including the fun stuff (weed, slurrypods etc).
IgniterV2-32x32.png
Igniter Get rid of a plant without dumping the tray out.
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Chainsaw Very effective at trimming hedges, not so good at trimming human heads.
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Produce satchel (x3) Each one holds up to 50 different produce items or seed packets.
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Paper bin For making joints, of course.
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Cybernetic cleaner bottle Works like a standard spray bottle of space cleaner, but if it runs below 25 units of cleaner (i.e. less than 5 sprays remaining), it regenerates 1 unit of cleaner every few seconds until you're back up to 25, reducing trips to a chem dispenser.
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Sponge A companion to the mop that can remove space lube by clicking on a tile to soak it up. Don't forget it can be wetted with your bucket.
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Mop Won't be very useful without the mop bucket. Click the mop onto a bucket to wet it.
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Miniaturized lamp manufacturer Light maker/replacer/remover. Unlike the version used by meatbags, this one runs off your internal battery rather than metal sheets. See here for all to use it. Good for replacing broken lights or making mood lighting!
BucketV2-32x32.png
Bucket To transfer water to said bucket, click a sink or large water tanks with it. Also doubles as a beaker.
PortableCameraViewerV2-32x32.png
Camera monitor Lets you view the cameras. Remember to deselect the tool slot containing the monitor, or you won't be able to affect anything you see.
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Lightweight rolling pin Still lets you make pizza dough and such, but does little damage.
BreadKnifeV2.png
Bread knife Great for cutting delicious pizza and cake. Not so great for cutting humans.
Ladle.png
Ladle For pouring soup into bowls, naturally.
IcingTubeV2.png
Icing tube Accepts liquid chemicals that can then be frosted onto cakes!
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Tongs A tool exclusive to the civilian cyborg. This tool helps handle food items such as picking them up as well as being able to "toss" the item in the tongs using the use button, creating things such as pizza dough and other things that would otherwise be made in-hand.

CyborgEngineeringModule.png The ultimate engineer, this cyborg is the only one that can fully repair its fellow borgs. You are expected to assist with the engine startup and fix up damage all across the station, big and small.


Department Radio Channel: Engineering 135.7 :e

Starting Upgrade: OpticalMesonsUpgrade.png Optical Meson Scanner Upgrade

Equipment:
Image Name Description
AtmosphericsTransporterV2-32x32.png
Atmospherics transporter Holds up to two portable atmos/fluids objects (canister, pump, scrubber, fluid tank) at a time.
FireExtinguisherV2-32x32.png
Fire extinguisher XL Like a regular fire extinguisher, but with 300 units of capacity instead of just 100. Helpful in event of an engine catastrophe and as a poor cyborg's substitute for a jetpack.
WelderV2-32x32.gif
Welder Can also be used to repair the chassis of yourself, other cyborgs or the AI.
TRayScannerV2-32x32.gif
T-ray scanner Lets you see the wiring under the floor so you can pull it up to repair or check its load. Also causes nearby cloaking devices to flicker.
DeviceAnalyzerV2-32x32.png
Device analyzer For assisting the mechanics. Can store several scans at once.
Soldering iron Allows you to deploy finished projects.
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Rapid construction device Lets you create and destroy walls, floors, lights and airlocks quickly and easily. Uses your cell power in the place of matter units.
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Miniaturized lamp manufacturer Can add in new light bulbs/tubes, change the color of existing ones, replace broken ones, and remove lights entirely, very useful for fixing up lighting in places that have been blown up. See here for how to use it. Worth noting that unlike the human version, this uses your internal battery charge, so there's no need to "refill" it with metal.
DeconstructionDeviceV2.png
Deconstruction device Can take apart certain machinery. Click on the machine with the device, then click on the various buttons that appear with the appropriate tools. Unlike the ones humans get to use, this version does no damage.
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Power shovel Behaves just like the non-borg version, i.e. it can break basic rock walls, is required to set up the Oshan Laboratory's geothermal engine, and is a rather weak weapon. Unlike the human version, though, it draws from your cyborg battery rather than the tool's internal cell. Appears only if you're playing on Oshan (i.e. if you're on Cogmap1, you won't see this.)
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Floor tiles x500 Allows you to lay new flooring. For fastest use, simply move and tap Page Down, which will automatically use the selected tool.
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Metal rods x500 Useful for building reinforced windows and making barricades.
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Metal sheets x500 For repairing walls, building chairs and various other objects.
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Glass sheets x500 Handy for making windows, which tend to be more attractive than endless hallways. Use your screwdriver to secure them in place.
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Cable coil x500 Suitable for fixing APCs, hotwiring the solars, and, of course, wire art!

CyborgMedicalModule.png Much like a medical doctor, or medibot with a brain. Remember: you can click-drag people onto operating tables to put them on there, and you can click-drag organs to attach them on/insert them into patients. Organs that have left and right versions will pick sides at random, and for surgeries that care about handed-ness, such as eyeball removal, tool slot 1 counts as a left hand and tool slot 3 counts as a right hand. For surgeries that need extra items besides organs and surgery tools, such as implanting items in someone's chest, you need a human to aid you. Surgery is generally allowed under your "do not harm humans" law, e.g. it's within your laws remove shrapnel lodged into the patient, though obviously it's still harm if you try to say, cut off a living person's head.

In addition, remember that clicking on a pill with a beaker dissolves all of the pill's contents into the beaker. This is useful for obtaining medicines that most commonly come in pill form, e.g. salbutamol.

Department Radio Channel: Medical 135.6 :m

Starting Upgrade: ProDocHealthGogglesUpgrade.png Health Scanner Upgrade

Equipment:
Image Name Description
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Defibrillator Fixes cardiac arrest (heart failure). Apply drugs to stabilize patients or they'll get new heart attacks.
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Scalpel For cutting out bullets, shrapnel and implants. Use drag & drop to put people on a surgery table.
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Circular saw Used together with scalpel to remove body parts. Patient must be on a surgery table.
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Enucleation spoon Cut their eyes out...with a spoon! Use tool slot 1 on your HUD to target the left eye and tool slot 3 to target the right eye.
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Surgical scissors Essential in removing various organs hidden in the chest.
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Staple gun Required for replacing limbs and such.
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Hemostat Reduces the amount of bleeding damage taken during surgery.
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Suture Closes open wounds and stops bleeding.
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Blood pack Use this if somebody has suffered severe blood loss. Can be refilled by drawing blood from a donor or by transferring blood from a beaker, dropper or syringe.
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Burn auto-mender Heals BURN damage when applied, with more healing the longer` it's been applied. While the tooltip might say it has only 200 units, it actually has infinite silver sulfadiazine.
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Brute auto-mender The same, but for brute damage and with infinite styptic powder.
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Syringe (x2) Empty syringes you can fill with whatever you want. It's generally a good idea to keep one of them loaded with epinephrine, and the other filled with anti-toxin at all times. Remember, injecting toxins is harming a human!
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Hypospray A special injector that will automatically transfer whatever contents it has upon clicking a target. It filters out harmful chemicals automatically.
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Cybernetic hypospray A hypospray that draws an internal reservoir (i.e. you can't fill it with anything else). This reservoir contains 25 units each of the following chems: epinephrine, salbutamol, mannitol, saline-glucose solution, charcoal, and potassium iodide. Each one replenishes 1 unit every 2 seconds, you click on it while it's in your active slot to cycle between all the possible reagents.
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Dropper For topical drugs. Refer to Doctoring for the whole list.
LargeBeakerV2.png Large beaker (x2) 100u capacity, for all those odd medicines.

CyborgMiningModule.png Your job is to use the mineral magnet and help the Miners. Note that you do not get an optical meson upgrade when you choose this module, so insist upon getting one from your roboticist or make one yourself.

Since you can't directly load materials in fabricators and processors as a borg, you have do it in roundabout way. To refine materials into finished blocks, bars, and blobs, click on a processor or reclaimer with the satchel. To load these refined materials into a fabricator or manufacturer, put it in a crate, then click-drag the crate onto the fabricator.

Department Radio Channel: Engineering 135.7 :e

Starting Upgrade: JetpackUpgrade.png Propulsion Upgrade

Equipment:
Image Name Description
LaserDrillV2.png
Laser drill One of the best personal digging tools out there, can break rocks with a toughness of up to 3 and has an infinite charge
CargoTransporterV2-32x32.png Cargo transporter This allows you to teleport crates full of ore back to the station. Click the crate with an empty hand to close it properly. You can attach barcodes onto crates by clickdragging a barcode from the floor onto a closed crate.
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Geological scanner Scans the local area for things like explosive veins, gems, and other dangers.
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Ore scoop Comes with a satchel, which cannot be detached. Walk over loose ore, then click on a floor tile, table or crate to dump the ore.
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Large mining satchel (x2) If either of them has somehow ended up on the floor, the Store button on the HUD should add it back to your inventory.
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Space GPS Allows you to landmark your location if you get lost or predict danger. Your PDA also has one of these installed, thought with less capabilities. Also shows locations of distress signals from other GPSes.
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Fire extinguisher XL Holds 300 units of firefighting foam instead of just 100; otherwise functions identically to a standard fire extinguisher. Good for putting out fires from mining accidents and can be used as a slightly less fancy version of the propulsion module.

CyborgChemistryModule.png Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to overcome the clunky chemical dispenser UI and unleash colorful reagent smoke everywhere. Or help resupply medbay maybe.

Department Radio Channel: Research 135.4 :r

Starting upgrade: SpectroscopicScannerUpgrade.png Spectroscopic Scanner Upgrade

Equipment:
Image Name Description
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Mini-CheMaster Will not dispense chemicals. Will allow you to isolate chemicals and such on the fly though. It also lets you create patches, pills (and pill bottles), chemical bottles, and ampoules, as with a stationary CheMaster.
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Syringe (x2) Useful for extracting small amounts of things from a larger container.
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Dropper Useful for extract even smaller amounts of things from a larger container.
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Mechanical dropper Useful for extracting the smallest amounts of things from a larger container.
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Large beaker (x3) With a capacity of 100 units each.
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Drinking glass Effectively another 50 unit container, but the contents of this one may be fed to humans instead of splashed on them.
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Fire extinguisher XL Perhaps a chemist's most important tool. It's XL because it can hold up to 300 units instead of just 100. Safety first! Also a handy jetpack in a pinch.

CyborgBrobocopModule.png An assistant to security, or perhaps a mashup of Clown, Detective, Chef, and Bartender. Has few weapons for arresting criminals (and really isn't expected to), but does have a few tools for conducting forensics and can access places and items most Security personnel can't. Should follow Space Law as well as the AI Laws shared by all cyborgs and AI units by default. Or in more stylish fashion:

PRIME DIRECTIVES:

1: Uphold your (actual) laws.

2: Protect the innocent by assisting Security personnel in enforcing Space Law.

3: Serve the public trust quality entertainment.

4: [CLASSIFIED]

!!!PARTY HARD!!!

Department Radio Channel: Security 135.9 :g

Starting upgrade: SecHUDUpgrade.png Security HUD

Equipment:
Image Name Description
BikeHorn.png
Sound synthesizer Become a mobile noise generator. Honk to your heart's content as you move closer and closer to being a glorified bike horn. Click on yourself with it to change its tune.
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Food synthesizer Dispenses a small variety of synthetic foods. Click on yourself with it to clear the selection, then use the synthesizer itself to pick a different item.
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Space beer Plain old beer. Why not use the dispensers to spice things up?
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Zippo lighter How snazzy would it be to have a flamethrower on your finger? Sadly, that roboticist did not give you one of those.
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Pen Write down clues and show those fun-hating scum what you really think of them.
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Pitcher An additional container for you to mix sparkles in.
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Crayon The more light-hearted counterpart to the pen. Click on yourself with it randomizes the color. Good for helpful signage and colorful art!
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Probability disc In other words, a coin.
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Probability cube Aka, a die. Clicking on it while it's in your active slot changes how many sides it has. Who knows what side this unpredictable object will land on?
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Box-shaped sticker dispenser Infinite stickers, on a cooldown. Reward good, law-abiding crew members or mark those who are not.
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Security RecordTrak For changing the arrest status of crew members, particularly when processing arrested and released criminals.
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Forensic scanner Conduct forensics and investigate crime in the places where no Security Officer can go.
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Cardboard tube The latest in non-lethal technology. It's perfectly harmless!
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Audio tape Record incriminating evidence. Or your latest mix tape. Note you can insert tapes in the machine via click-drag.
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Camera monitor Lets you view the cameras. Remember to deselect the module containing the monitor, or you won't be able to affect anything you see.
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Hand labeler Put amusing and/or useful labels on people and objects. Click/activate it in-hand to set the label, click on anything else to put the label on it. Putting nothing for the label text lets you remove labels.
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Security TicketWriter 2000 A snazzy miniature typewriter set to produce tickets. Your PDA has the same function embedded, but this machine's got flair!

Discontinued Modules

  • AtmosBot.png Atmospherics - Assisted with re-pressurization of station assets. Added on January 1st, 2011, discontinued on June 23rd, 2012. Merged with engineering.
  • VenderBot.png Vendor - Produced synthetic food for the crew to eat. Added on January 1st, 2011, discontinued on June 23rd, 2012. Merged with brobot.
  • SecBot.png Security - Detained criminals and assisted security officers. Removed due to rampant abuse, killing and law breaking.
  • ConBot.png Construction - Built and repaired the station. Merged with engineering on March 6th, 2018.
  • GarBot.png Hydroponics - Grew produce. Added on June 12, 2010. Merged with civilian on March 6th, 2018.
  • JanBot.png Janitor - Cleaned up messes. Merged with civilian on March 6th, 2018.
  • BroBot.png Brobot - Synthesized food and spammed funny sounds. Revamped into brobocop on March 6th, 2018.
  • StaBot.png Standard - Had lots of random junk. Removed for being useless, redundant and boring to play on March 6th, 2018. Camera monitor given to brobocop.

Supplementary Video


Jobs on Space Station 13
Command &
Security
Captain · Head of Security · Head of Personnel · Chief Engineer · Research Director · Medical Director · Security Officer · Detective · Security Assistant · Nanotrasen Security Consultant
Medical &
Research
Geneticist · Roboticist · Scientist · Medical Doctor
Engineering Quartermaster · Miner · Engineer
Civilian Chef · Bartender · Botanist · Rancher · Janitor · Chaplain · Staff Assistant · Radio Host · Clown · Gimmick jobs
Jobs of the Day Dungeoneer · Barber · Mail Courier · Lawyer · Tourist · Musician · Boxer
Antagonist Roles With own mode Arcfiend · Blob · Changeling · Gang Member · Flockmind · Nuclear Operative · Spy Thief · Traitor · Revolutionary · Vampire · Wizard
Others Grinch · Hunter · Krampus · Werewolf · Wraith · Wrestler · Zombie · Gimmick antagonist roles
Special Roles Artificial Intelligence · Battler · Cluwne · Critter · Cyborg · Ghost · Ghostdrone · Monkey · Santa Claus
Game Mechanics
The Basics Getting Started · Super Quick Tutorial · Rules · Game FAQ · Quick guide to station systems · Mentorhelp · SpicyChickenGod Tutorials
Critters Remy.png Critters · CyborgV3-64x64.gif Cyborgs · Robuddy.png Robots · BiosuitNew.png Viruses
Game Abstractions IDCardBlankV2-27x13.png Access Levels · MartianRover.png Adventure Zone · Basicfishingrod.png Fishing · OmniTraitorV2-64x64.gif Game Modes · HealthImplantNewHUD.png Health Indicators · 2k13VintageSantaHatV2-32x32.png Holiday Cheer · InHand.png Inventory · WarMedal-32x32.png Medals · Basketball.png Random Events · Clipboard2.png Station Grade · MonsieurStirstirV2-32x32.png Traitor Objectives · GraduationCap-32x32.png XP · ScienceTeleporterComputer.png Z-level
Miscellaneous Falsemustache.png Being A Better Traitor · WizardSpellbookV2-32x32.gif Books · CommunicationsComputer.png Calling the Escape Shuttle · PaintCan.png Fixing the Paint Machine · DrinkRobustEezV3.png Guide to Being Robust · LaserGunV2-32x32.png Guide to Murder · Men.png Kendo · NtcommanderNew64.png NT Reputation · RubberStamp.png Roleplay Tips and Tricks · WallSafe32x32.png Safe-Cracking · SpacebuxToken.png Spacebux · StGDeck.png Spacemen: The Grifening · MiniPutt.png Space Travel · NanotrasenBeret.png Traits · ZoldorfSprite.png Zoldorf